Affidavit: McVeigh had high-level help According to Oklahoma bombing
conspirator, ranking officials were involved in the attack

Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking
FBI official "apparently" was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to
blow up a government building and might have changed the original target
of the attack, according to a new affidavit filed in U.S. District Court
in Utah.

The official and other conspirators are being protected by the
federal government "in a cover-up to escape its responsibility for the
loss of life in Oklahoma," Nichols claims in a Feb. 9 affidavit.

Documents that supposedly help back up his allegations have been
sealed to protect information in them, such as Social Security numbers
and dates of birth.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah had no comment on the allegations.
The FBI and Justice Department in Washington, D.C., also declined
comment.

Nichols does not say what motive the government would have to be
involved in the bombing.

The affidavit was filed in a lawsuit brought by Salt Lake City
attorney Jesse Trentadue, who believes his brother's death in a federal
prison was linked to the Oklahoma City bombing. The suit, which seeks
documents from the FBI under the federal Freedom of Information Act,
alleges that authorities mistook Kenneth Trentadue for a bombing
conspirator and that guards killed him in an interrogation that got out
of hand.

Trentadue's death a few months after the April 19, 1995, bombing was
ruled a suicide after several investigations. The government has
adamantly denied any wrongdoing in the death.

In his affidavit, Nichols says he wants to bring closure to the
survivors and families of the attack on the Alfred B. Murrah Federal
Building, which took 168 lives. He alleges he wrote then-Attorney
General John Ashcroft in 2004, offering to help identify all parties who
played a role in the bombing but never got a reply...

New OKC Revelations Spotlight FBI Involvement In Bombing Nichols'
claim that McVeigh had government handlers supported by huge weight of
known evidence

New claims by Oklahoma City Bombing conspirator Terry Nichols that
Timothy McVeigh was being steered by a high-level FBI official are
supported by a plethora of evidence that proves McVeigh did not act
alone and that authorities had prior warnings and were complicit in the
bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building....

Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue dropped more bombshells on
the U.S. government's involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing and its
cover-up today, including the revelation that Timothy McVeigh's
co-conspirator Terry Nichols was gagged from talking to the media years
ago by John Ashcroft, in an attempt to silence Nichols from exposing the
men who were directing McVeigh's attack on the Alfred P. Murrah
building....